Saturday, February 5, 2011

This close up view of seaweed swirling in the tide, by the Australian artist, Martine Emdur, is intimate but painted on a huge scale: 168 x 183 cm.

Sometimes the only way to make people stop and look at the beauty you wish to convey to the world, is to blow an image up to wall size.

This was the conclusion that Georgia O'Keefe came to about painting flowers:

“So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”

Other artists have said that there is a right scale for every painting.

A tiny painting can also captivate the viewer if it possesses a gem-like beauty.

To paint the sea, you must love it, and to love it, you must know the sea.- Frederick Judd Waugh

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This blog is intended as a reference resource for seascape painters (particularly those working in oils) and for art lovers. It's a mix of nautical/maritime art, seascapes and coastal scenes, both old and new. The blog is of a non-profit, educational nature; however, if you are the owner of an image and would like it removed, please advise in a comment to the post. Add comments by clicking on the word 'comments' under a post.

Copyright of images of paintings on this blog are usually held by the artist or owner and are not generally in the public domain.

A large proportion of the artists are from the US simply because their work seems to be easier to find on the internet, and perhaps the genre is more popular there, but suggestions of famous painters from other countries (and for the blog in general) are welcome.

Apologies if a link to an artist's or gallery's website has been inadvertantly omitted. If you are interested in seeing more, or purchasing, work by any of the artists on this site, google their full name in inverted commas, with perhaps the word 'paintings' or 'artist' and it should take you to their site or the site of a gallery representing them.

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry